scyMar 12

"FOSS maintainers are unpaid and don't have the resources to manage large open source projects, they _have_ to use AI to get anything done."

I've seen this take a couple of times in recent weeks, and I've got two things to say about it:

1. We've been able to manage large open source projects for decades in the past, without LLMs.

2. Ever thought about how there may be a connection between "FOSS is unpaid" and capitalism producing trillion-dollar AI companies and more and more billionaires?

Show threadziviMar 13
@scy “They have to introduce unmaintainable unreliable slop into their codebase to maintain their codebase” is what that logic resolves to lmao
Show threadziviMar 13
@scy and as mentioned elsewhere in the thread, LLMs don’t make developers more productive, they induce a sort of psychosis that makes them think they’re more productive when it’s the other way around and actual development skills are being lost
Show threadi’m MiMar 13
@zaire @scy what if they need the psychosis against executive dysfunction, maybe this is a bit like medicating their ADHD with nicotine

maybe society does do everything it can to not give people meth
no matter the cost
Show threadziviMar 13

@mi @scy i’m pretty sure whatever you’re referring to is unrelated. the average sloperator is too normie to have executive dysfunction, and LLM psychosis isnt that kinda psychosis

  • abuse of mind-altering substances is a health concern probably dont do it
Show threadLi ~ Crystal System

@zaire @mi @scy you cant abuse substances , substances are not people, substances do not have a way they want to be treated.

they can be used to abuse people (i.e if you like sneak it into their food or something) .. but they cant be abused :D

though im still not sure what the heck AI has to do with ADHD medication or 'the war on drugs' bullshit in general

Mar 13 at 7:54pmWeb
Show threadziviMar 14
@Li @mi @scy good point!! ty